New Origin8 Space Bar on my mountain

Just got these new bars on my mountain bike. Haven't gotten to hit the trails yet because it's cold and raining today, but just around the neighborhood and yard they feel a lot better. Most importantly, I have a lot more leverage to pull the front of the bike up. Gary Fishers have such long top tubes and I'm not the strongest guy ever, I have always had trouble getting the front wheel over obstacles.

I think I'm going to order one of these for my Trek fx7500 that gets 1000 miles a month. bye bye flat/riser bars!

Just got these new bars on my mountain bike. Haven't gotten to hit the trails yet because it's cold and raining today, but just around the neighborhood and yard they feel a lot better. Most importantly, I have a lot more leverage to pull the front of the bike up. Gary Fishers have such long top tubes and I'm not the strongest guy ever, I have always had trouble getting the front wheel over obstacles.

I think I'm going to order one of these for my Trek fx7500 that gets 1000 miles a month. bye bye flat/riser bars!

Be careful saying you have more leverage. I once posited that I had more leverage and could put down more force with bar ends, and no number of logical explanations, statics diagrams, or lever arm analysis would convince a large group of BFers that I was not only wrong, but undeserving of my engineering education.

Be careful saying you have more leverage. I once posited that I had more leverage and could put down more force with bar ends, and no number of logical explanations, statics diagrams, or lever arm analysis would convince a large group of BFers that I was not only wrong, but undeserving of my engineering education.

Be careful saying you have more leverage. I once posited that I had more leverage and could put down more force with bar ends, and no number of logical explanations, statics diagrams, or lever arm analysis would convince a large group of BFers that I was not only wrong, but undeserving of my engineering education.

I had space bars on my rigid mt bike til I read that some folks have broken theirs jra on mtbr. (do a "space bar" search on mtbr) They're also listed on the origin8 site as "urban" bars. Take that with a grain of salt. They were only on the bike three weeks before I swapped them out with some misfit fubar's. They're a lot more burlier than the space bars. Another alternative is the groovy luv handles but there's a lead time on those.
I still have the space bars and I might transfer them onto my commuter. They're pretty ergo-comfy but I'd rather have peace of mind when I'm riding on singletrack.
ymmv...

Be careful saying you have more leverage. I once posited that I had more leverage and could put down more force with bar ends, and no number of logical explanations, statics diagrams, or lever arm analysis would convince a large group of BFers that I was not only wrong, but undeserving of my engineering education.

I don't care about the physics. I'm rocking the FuBars and I have WAY more leverage.

I don't care about the physics. I'm rocking the FuBars and I have WAY more leverage.

It's not so much the leverage as it is that you shift your CG aft with the space bars, which takes some of the load off the front wheel. You're not applying greater force to the front of the bike but because you're sitting further back it takes a lower force on the handlebars the get the front wheel up.

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Originally Posted by bragi"However, it's never a good idea to overgeneralize."

Be careful saying you have more leverage. I once posited that I had more leverage and could put down more force with bar ends, and no number of logical explanations, statics diagrams, or lever arm analysis would convince a large group of BFers that I was not only wrong, but undeserving of my engineering education.

It's not so much the leverage as it is that you shift your CG aft with the space bars, which takes some of the load off the front wheel. You're not applying greater force to the front of the bike but because you're sitting further back it takes a lower force on the handlebars the get the front wheel up.

That would be true except for the fact that i got a 30mm longer stem with the bars which negated the distance of the sweep.

That would be true except for the fact that i got a 30mm longer stem with the bars which negated the distance of the sweep.

I may not have more leverage, but it sure feels like I do.

Careful on your negations. I've read (with regard to the On One Mary) that the bar actually feels more forward than one would suspect because the bar actually sweeps forward quite a bit before it comes back. It depends on how far out you grip as to how far back you sit.

It appears by the pic's though...that Mary sweeps forward but doesn't quite make up the return distance. The Spacebar sweeps back a bit more.